Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
BANGER · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 14.1h
- Value
- $0.71/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 78% over the last 30 days against 93% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD Radeon R9 280X / GeForce GTX 760, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG by Koji Igarashi. Play as Miriam, an orphan scarred by an alchemist's curse that slowly crystallizes her body. Battle through a demon-infested castle and defeat its master to save yourself, and all of humanity!
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was June 2026. It has been discounted 69 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 65 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $9.99 at 75 percent off still sits 150 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 65. With it, 89.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games closest to it, Dex ($19.99, scores 48) and Timespinner ($19.99, scores 66) both come in lower.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $12.97. It costs $9.99.
Steam's global achievement data says under 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 14.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Players rate it 93 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 78 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 2,254 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
14.1 hours to finish it, 36 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
94% start to <1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 14.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
158 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This game is the closest thing to Castlevania Symphony of the Night. Even little details like having the fairy sing a song near the piano were clearly borrowed from SOTN. It also has multiple playable characters and the same exploration element that I love from the Castlevania series. If you like 2D Castlevania games you will probably like this one too.
Wow. Just wow! This is what a Castlevania should be like. Thanks for reminding us, Iga.
Used to be able to play without any issues. Now the game is stuck loading on the main screen.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/692850/bloodstained-ritual-of-the-nightThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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